This module allows you to analyze existing cross correlation between Microsoft Corporation and Alphabet Inc. You can compare the effects of market volatilities on Microsoft and Alphabet and check how they will diversify away market risk if combined in the same portfolio for a given time horizon. You can also utilize pair trading strategies of matching a long position in Microsoft with a short position of Alphabet. See also your portfolio center.Please also check ongoing floating volatility patterns of Microsoft and Alphabet.

Pair Volatility

Given the investment horizon of 30 days, Microsoft Corporation is expected to generate 0.88 times more return on investment than Alphabet. However, Microsoft Corporation is 1.14 times less risky than Alphabet. It trades about 0.06 of its potential returns per unit of risk. Alphabet Inc is currently generating about -0.02 per unit of risk. If you would invest 6,017 in Microsoft Corporation on November 9, 2016 and sell it today you would earn a total of 85.00 from holding Microsoft Corporation or generate 1.41% return on investment over 30 days.

Correlation Coefficient

Pair Corralation between Microsoft and Alphabet

0.84

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Diversification

Very poor diversification

Overlapping area represents amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc. in the same portfolio assuming nothing else is changed. The correlation between historical prices or returns on Alphabet Inc and Microsoft is a relative statistical measure of the degree to which these equity instruments tend to move together. The correlation coefficient measures the extent to which returns on Microsoft Corporation are associated (or correlated) with Alphabet. Values of the correlation coefficient range from -1 to +1, where. The correlation of zero (0) is possible when the price movement of Alphabet Inc has no effect on the direction of Microsoft i.e. Microsoft and Alphabet go up and down completely randomly.